Senior Solutions Architect

The purpose of the Senior Solution Architect is to orchestrate complex solution architectures with a broad architectural significance for key outcomes or epics by defining the architectures and designs that deliver our key outcomes aligning with our technology strategy. They play a substantive role in enabling teams to deliver at pace by shaping the solution architecture forward look for a lab or platform, and partner with Product Owners, engineering teams, and Enterprise architects.

An excellent opportunity for a Senior Solutions Architect to join our innovative Stockbroking lab within the Insurance, Pensions, and Investments division. In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to shape the future of online trading by designing and implementing a streamlined, customer and colleague-focused platform that will redefine how our customers invest. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver cutting-edge solutions that enhance our digital presence and improve customer engagement.

Here's where you'll make a difference:

• Lead the design and development of scalable, robust, and secure architecture solutions for the new digital stockbroking platform.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects, and Engineers to create and maintain the architectural runway for our platform teams.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and service providers to elaborate on solutions, validate technology assumptions, and evaluate implementation alternatives.
• Ensure alignment of architectural solutions with business goals and technology strategy.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Conduct architectural reviews and ensure adherence to best practices and standards.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks and issues.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation.

What you’ll need:

• Designing and implementing complex, large-scale architecture solutions.
• Common enterprise integration patterns.
• Working with cloud platforms (GCP preferred).
• Microservices, event-based architecture and API design.
• Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
• Designing to meet complex security principles and practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Containerisation and orchestration tools e.g. Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Working in a regulated environment and designing to meet compliance requirements.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Domain driven design principles and patterns.
• Delivering software solutions in financial services (particularly trading/investments or wealth).
• Delivering large scale data migrations (500k+ customers).
• Enterprise architecture frameworks e.g. TOGAF.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.